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Second login with my throwaway account today! Apologies in advance: This stuff is much too personal to post under my real identity.

Exactly this, in my experience. I am from a upper-middle-class family. I live in East Asia now, and wealthy by local standards. Whenever I travel to developing countries in Asia, I am regularly reminded of my upper-middle-class-plus-plus status by the straightness and whiteness of my teeth! Yes, literally, I can count on many, many hands how many times random strangers approach me on the street/bus/train/hotel/airport in developing countries with comments about my straight and/or white teeth. (Please: Do not read humble-brag into that.)

Could we, perhaps, say that accent is a big social divide in UK, whereas teeth are a big social divide in US? I would love to hear from Canadians, Kiwis, Aussies, Saffers, etc...(anyone!) about experiences in their home culture.
that would be a full GPL compliant product, which is not what the comment was talking about.

Someone said companies use GPL software, add their business logic or drivers, and never contribute back: e.g. android phones.

Then someone else said the insane thing that the user benefits.

I pointed out that if there is a security flaw, you CANNOT build/path because you do not have all the source (e.g. alternative android OS cannot use the camera or radio for lack of kernel drivers)
Liable to get on the SEC, and industry's bad side.

Regulators are (intentionally) designed to be able to exert pressure with a lot of discretion. The financial industry is having a ferocious rage fit. The NASDAQ CEO even went on air calling for immediate SEC regulation... the irony didn't even seem lost to him.

Getting on the industry and SEC's bad side is the liability, and that kind of pressure is a big part of hw the SEC actually "regulates." It isn't strictly through rules.
Right now the retail investors are winning. But imagine if they lost tons of money instead. You might have regulators yelling that Robinhood is not doing enough to inform and protect their customers from self harm. Or even that they were encouraging risky behavior.
> virtually everyone who would have been buying GME yesterday based on the pump nonsense would have lost all that money

That's not true. Today the stock went higher than at any point yesterday.
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I want to believe this but by and large it seems the media is unsurprisingly siding with the hedge fund side of things. Mainstream media clearly works for the elites.
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Which is fine if you're only managing code and not using all the other functionality like bug tracking/feature requests, documentation, pull requests.
On a similar note, I've noticed that some of the successful entrepreneur's I know took success in one area and applied it to another, often in the form of re-investing their savings. Watching someone go from salaried to having a million in savings, and then investing _all_ of it into a new business that's not guaranteed to succeed... I question whether I could do that. A million dollars is enough to retire ahead of schedule, would I be willing to risk it all and go back to a salaried employee with no savings? Yet I've noticed many successful people do this, often repeatedly.
Carriers run IoT-specific networks[1], which are optimized for use cases such as telematics (low power consumption, low bandwidth usage, but high penetration and coverage). So it's entirely likely that your washing machine would be able to happily send along telematic data via the same carrier your cell phone can't even establish a connection to.

[1] https://www.business.att.com/products/lpwa.html
Robinhood determined that you're too poor to mess with the market. Sorry about that!

This whole thing is such bullshit.
> The chances that a fund the size of Citadel has any strong opinion on the direction of GameStop stock is vanishingly low

I didn't touch this in the first place, but once it was clear it was a short squeeze, nope, not gonna play that game. Just sit back and enjoy the show.
Yeah even though it's completely coincidental - "avir" means air in Hebrew. There's also the similarity to Avion which I would guess is not coincidental.
The ironic thing is that the end result of this will probably be a ban on payment for order flow which will destroy the commission-free trading model. We’ll go back to paying $5/trade or whatever and everyone (except HFT) will ostensibly be happy.
I understand you. Many of the people seeing news stories or social media posts today about buying GameStop are also unsophisticated. Brokers may be thinking it is in their self-interest to not just execute every buy order in an obviously inflated stock.
IMO, any suit the court accepts to hear has merit. The thing is that every broker operates under the same rules, and as long as RH didn't violate those, then they'll win in court. However, they may well lose even more financially in customer base no matter which way the suit decides.

Interesting to me is that there's lots of timely chatter in the crypto world how trading on a high-capacity blockchain (Avalanche, maybe Cardano, etc). removes the broker's gatekeeping. We'll get to see who the lawmakers are pulling for here, and well, my cynicism knows no bounds when it comes to that.
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Counterpoint: You are assuming good faith behavior in RH, where I see blatant fraud. It is outright market manipulation that they stop people from buying, but not selling. That they stopped individuals like me, who know the risk and can afford the loss, while allowing their hedge fund buddies to buy the dump and cover shorts.

As for "this would have happened anyway", well that doesn't sound very free market to force the very thing you claim to be trying to stop. RH says "oh no we don't want you to lose money, so we're going to cause a crash on the stock. Feel free to sell".

It's rotten to the core.
Perhaps that's the way a broker should be, but what Robinhood, TD and other brokers did is 100% legal and has been done thousands of times in the past. There's absolutely nothing new or illegal about brokers using their discretion to restrict trading of any stock or asset at any time for any reason.
Is it possible to connect this to an RTMPS stream as well or does that defeat the purpose? Can only people Joined in the room get the stream?
The justifiable reason is because if they continue to allow purchases of GME, they might get hit with an even bigger lawsuit from retail. See JumpCrisscross's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25943058

Robinhood is stuck between a set of large lawsuits and a set of even bigger lawsuits. It seems like their internal counsel has decided halting trading will lead to the set containing the smaller lawsuits of the two.
Oof. It looks like a duck, and it is starting to sound like a duck.

I wonder if it's a duck?
I'm personally not a fan of the author's writing style. You can fetishize minimalism and clarity to the point that it undermines your goal. But the content here is good. In TODO list form, I suggest anyone writing something think through:

1. Who are you writing to?

2. Why are you writing to them?

3. What do you want them to know?

4. What do they already know?

5. What style of writing is most effective for this audience and intention?

What remains is to use 5 to describe the difference between 4 and 3 in order to accomplish 2. The primary challenge is that 1 is often not a single person and the wider the audience you choose, the fuzzier all of the subsequent answers become. The single best thing you can do to become a stronger writer is to be courageous about selecting a narrow audience.
You guys are missing the point that some company already cornered the market by using open source code and not contributing back their work. they have a head start from everyone that can ever be involved.
Modern shells are powerful enough to help you remember, if you learn to configure them appropriately. My histories are always saved because each shell instance gets its own HISTFILE, like so:

export HISTFILE=$HOME/.history/${TTY##\*/}.$SHLVL

As I use different terminal windows for different tasks, this keeps history files rather concise thematically.

And I let the shell add timestamps too, so I can grep for entries produced during a certain time span:

zsh:

setopt EXTENDEDHISTORY # add timestamps

bash:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

I write perl or shell script files, of course, if it's more than some a handful of lines.
To me the concern here is that if a company offers working remotely as an option, remote workers will always be second-class citizens. (The bad habit of Slack DMs instead of conversations in a public channel is already pretty entrenched.) People that work in the office will have casual conversations that exclude people working remotely, and the remote workers will always be a little behind. I think for that reason that all or nothing is the most fair. (I wonder if giving people a coworking space for free is the answer to people that need to get away from home, which is a completely reasonable concern.)
It's probably purely a math question -- what's cheaper impending lawsuit (we can settle) or losing our trade?
People thought Cybertruck looked ridiculous and Tesla went off the rails with the design... and then pre-orders went off the rails. Most things Tesla does are extremely polarizing and to no ones surprise yoke steering wheel is no exception. Most ridiculous part of the situation is that we have 0 information on how that thing works. All we have to go off are looks. Some people love them and others make a bunch of assumptions so they can criticize it. Given Tesla's track record I will remain cautiously optimistic, but in absolute worst case scenario we are putting racing steering wheels on highest end sport cars... sounds absolutely dreadful doesn't it?

edit: typoed.
Yes, but... they're both wrong. The trades that Robinhood blocked were objectively bad trades, and the people they stopped from buying would almost certainly have lost all that money.

Now, I agree that there's a good first principles argument (and also a bad populist one) that people should be allowed to trade their own money into scams if they want. But the idea of proving damages here based on the idea that GME was going to CONTINUE TO GO UP after a 500% increase triggered by a short squeeze is just insane, sorry.
If you agree that a bank should engage in paternalism and tell people what they can and cannot afford then why shouldn't Robinhood also engage in paternalism and tell people what stock they can or cannot buy?
In my experience you typically don't need STUN for that to work - the ICE flow of WebRTC will handle regular NAT[1].

It's typically when ICE can't determine the first few steps (eg your public address) that you need STUN to help you out.

TURN tends to be needed in hostile networking situations like double NAT'd networks or very restricted networks like hospitals.

[1] - https://webrtcglossary.com/ice/
like the saying: If the product is free, YOU are the product.
Labels can be divisive and tribal when used against individuals, to smear them by saying they're guilty of the bad actions of a few in a group. However language itself is built on "labels", so they're required.

It's impossible to criticize bad ideas without some shorthand label for those kinds of thinking and ideologies. The fact that whole entire groups hold those same ideas necessarily is a critique of the entire group, and is necessarily tribal. But labels are nonetheless also necessary for the discussion to take place.

Democracies can only thrive when there's an educated population free to discuss all ideas, and allowed to strongly criticize or even ridicule those they disagree with. Yet people like Jack Dorsey think it's their duty to step in as a referee to make sure everyone's polite and behaves according to his personal political views. He needs to be put back in his place, because no one elected him, and he just fell backwards by accident into a power position over millions by pure luck.
And what about the right to refuse helping people buying a stock that is being actively manipulated by people who have made thousands of public comments delcaring their intent to manipulate the price?
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Market manipulation by a brokerage is illegal, regardless how much fine text you print.
https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Robinhood%2...

Read section 16.
One can simultaneously find this whole thing pretty popcorn-worthy while hoping not too many people end up seriously screwing up their lives over it.
> directly through the market

There is nothing but the market makers.

> I assumed Citadel would actually be cleaning up market making GME with all the trading and volatility, but maybe the trades are too coordinated

I suspect they are still making bank. The demand for liquidity has increased, so there is a higher premium on liquidity provision.
So is closing the account and moving to a better app.. Robin Hood is going to take this on the chin.
XML is far more readable for more complex data. XSL is a great tool as well. JSON is overrated and should only be used for very simple cases.
If someone either willfully or through purposeful negligence both doesn’t read a README or PR template that outline PRs aren’t welcome and submits a PR hoping against hope for a different outcome, I think we can assume that absolutely nothing will prevent them from having their hopes crushed.

I don’t think optimizing for that edge case makes a ton of sense. Having the ability to hide PRs might be a nice feature, but some people use that for stuff other than straight pull requests.
> isn't this a fundamental contradiction?

It isn't. You can accept donations. You can charge for support/enhancement work, or for a managed service. You can also find a salaried job where your work is released under a Free and Open Source licence, such as Linux kernel development.

You're right that it's famously difficult to monetise Free and Open Source software, but there are a few examples of it happening.

> the original idea of open source: that it was the cool things you could build with code, not the code itself, that had value.

Perhaps I'm missing your point here, but as far as I know, there's nothing in the Open Source or Free Software movements that ever viewed FOSS primarily as the basis for interesting proprietary software.

> They've built things on FOSS code that never existed before, and most of them have contributed a lot of FOSS code back. But they haven't sold databases, reverse proxies, and key/value stores, right?

Red Hat might be the clearest counterexample here. If I understand correctly, their charge for their official builds, which I suppose is a way of charging for support.

You're right though that many of them go with a service model and don't publish the code. Amazon Aurora, for instance, or Google App Engine.
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That's true. Most people involved are driven by profit, not by screwing up hedge funds. Trading controls are important but it's problematic that Robinhood has this kind of power. That's usually something that exchanges control.
Tesla is drive by wire so Tesla can make the steering ratio whatever they want. In fact it may be completely configurable in software.
The reason Reddit is a better user experience than usenet is 1) voting on posts and karma, and 2) continually polished user interface.

Design a decentralized protocol that can handle voting/karma, while also incentivising developers of clients. The problem is that this is not easy.
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Robinhood's mission is to gamify day trading. Don't let the pretty mission statements obfuscate the truth.
The SEC or the exchange (ie: Nasdaq) should be the one to step in. They are the ones concerned.
Weird sentiment in this thread. Regardless of the survey i have only seen positive reactions to working remote, and hope remote is here to stay.
> The near work hypothesis, also referred to as the "use-abuse theory" states that spending time involved in near work strains the intraocular and extraocular muscles.

Goodness Wikipedia, this isn't the theory at all. It has nothing to do with muscle strain. We know for a fact that in youth, the eyeball grows longer when it's overfocusing (especially in fovea), and stops growing when things are blurry. That's how it maintain focus as you grow and age. This isn't a theory, it's how the eye works. There are already multiple types of technology that successfully slow and stop myopia based on this principle, as listed in my post.

The mechanism of outdoor light is just a hypothesis without known direct link. It may be related but there's no direct evidence for it yet.
Both for DEB and RPM the packages are coming from our own registry (https://artifacts.elastic.co) and not from the Linux distributions. We also maintain our own Docker registry (and mirror that to Docker Hub though they provide some numbers). So we have a good picture about licenses, versions, operating systems,...

Philipp from Elastic.
> Basically: there's a reason for these trading controls to exist.

There is a reason for trading controls by a neutral third party. Trading controls created and manipulated by a stakeholder is market manipulation and illegal.
A TOS doesn't stand up to law but also it goes beyond that. Even if you don't use Robinhood but you were holding GME you are affected by this move. It's securities fraud and market manipulation at its finest.
The car is speeding toward a cliff edge. "Maybe the cliff edge is 200 feet away, not 100. Maybe the cliff is only 100 feet high, not 200. Could there be some gravel at the bottom, and not just boulders? Maybe it's not a cliff at all! Let's just think about this more. It would be terrible to act and then discover we didn't need to, just yet!"

What facts are you in doubt about? Do you have doubts that, as already-hot places become uninhabitable, people will flee toward places that are not, instead of staying put and, you know, dying? Europe is failing to absorb the refugee influx it already sees. In the US, 70M+ people voted for fascism in 2016 and in 2020, and a BorderWall™.

Do you doubt that as coral reefs bleach and oceans acidify, fisheries will collapse? They are already collapsing. Do you believe that as people fail to get enough protein, they will not respond with desperation?

Or are you one who insists that we don't have proof sufficiently iron-clad that record-high temperatures and record-low ocean pH will continue responding, as predicted and as observed for decades, to rising CO2 levels, and that we must act as if nothing is happening?
So am I crazy, or is WSB a fairly transparent ploy for larger investors to get more stupid money into the market? Like the people making out here are the ones that sold the short positions before everyone hopped on the bandwagon. Am I missing something here?
Or just that you have some kind of disposable income.
No, it doesn't. Imagine there is 1 share, owned by A. He lends it to B. B now (short) sells it to C. Now from C's point of view, he owns a share. So he lends it to someone. That person then short sells it.

So you have 1 share, that's shorted twice. But it's impossible for A and C to both have their loan repaid, because there's only 1 physical share.
But it doesn't have to go the way of blockbuster, it appointed 3 new directors to its board with e-commerce and tech experience. It seems to be looking to transition to an e-commerce platform.
I think the cat is out of the bag on this one.

Basically we need to start thinking of this as a tool that retail investors now have.

So, the hedge funds will have to tread very carefully now regarding the shorts, since at any time the retail investors can unleash this tool against them.

Of course we're seeing a collusion of brokers that can put a dent in this, but I believe overall this will lead to some interesting fundamental changes. It's not just a blip.

Note: I'm just an observer. I have no positions in any of these stocks.
Work from home has given me opportunities that were previously unavailable because companies did not want remote employees (it was not in the culture). I can now pick up some part time contract work at these places to help save $$.

IMO WFH is a lot easier on smaller teams/org's, where you have deep expertise. It is not a pancea, but it certainly is better then no WFH.
FWIW, me and my team would likely be super into paying for a hosted Jitsi if there was another pricing structure. We run our own but keeping it running smoothly takes away dev energy. Counting usage like this just seems very ripe for abuse by anybody who wishes to harm the group.
Doesn’t a car require regulatory approval? If a car is approved with a feature that is a safety risk, the problem is with the rules at least as much as with the car.
+1

I get the problem with JackTrip (though JamTrip[1] looks a good start).

Out of interest, what were the problems with Jamulus? I've found it easier than expected (once I'd got Jack set up and happy / understood). On Windows / MacOS it's actually easier as there are are clear, well-trodden install guides (and no Jack / low-latency kernels to explain).

[1] https://github.com/vicwomg/jamtrip
Unfortunately, RH most likely made the decision already taking into account the potential costs of making it (including lawsuits and fines by regulators). Their alternative was probably “biting the hand that feeds them”, hence more likely an existential risk to them.

Being cynic about it, nothing of consequence will come out of this. RH will just pay up and continue business as usual. WallStreet will have successfully crushed the little guys, ironically, doing the same they are complaining about, market manipulation. And in the future people will think twice before attempting something like this again.
He want's to write curl code, anything else that distracts from that he doesn't want to do if he doesn't have to.

Hosting a version control system on his own vs just git cloning and pushing to github.com is more work. He doesn't want that. That's really all it is.
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I'm sorry that you feel like you have to give reasons why you weren't able to work 12 hours a day. That's an unreasonable, unhealthy, and frankly disrespectful expectation from your employer whether it's explicit or hidden. I'd encourage you not to try to justify or excuse it. I can't imagine that losing the job is easy, but

it's not your fault

that you were subjected to that, or that you did not match their terrible standards.
Because of the expiration date of the short they sold and uncertainty over whether the price would continue to increase.

If you have to buy by EOD Friday and the price starts skyrocketing Thursday, you might want to buy a little earlier even if it means eating a huge loss, because you don't know if that skyrocket will continue into the next day.

e: Why is that downvoted?
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I think the article assumed a base familiarity with the topic.

The basic idea behind variable steering ratios is, you space the teeth of your rack and pinion closer together in the middle and further away on the ends. This makes the wheel feel more sensitive in the middle. [1]

Here is a car with a square wheel that nobody liked: [2]

[1] https://autozine.org/technical_school/traction/Steering_2.ht...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Allegro
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It's already below its open.

Edit: multiple responses seizing on what can only be called a conspiracy theory at this point that some how absent Robinhood's tiny trade volume this stock would somehow still be going up from a 500% increase.

Guys, YES, the system is kinda rigged. What happened here is that you all GOT SCAMMED. There is no magic short call coming tomorrow. The stock was pumped (starting originally with a short squeeze, but of course now it's just a regular bubble), and you were fooled into trying to buy it high. You are the victims here, not the heroes.